Ecca Vandal Announces Second Album, Shares New Single ‘SORRY! CRASH!’
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW, Ecca Vandal’s long-awaited sophomore album, is set for release this May.
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It’s been almost a decade since Ecca Vandal dropped her thrilling self-titled debut album, and now the genre chameleon returns with her long-awaited sophomore record, LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW, out Friday 22 May via Loma Vista Recordings.
Described as an album about “subtraction”, Vandal had this to say about the record: “The systems. The trends. The illusions of connection. It’s about choosing silence over spectacle, finding empowerment through letting go. It’s a space we still protect at all costs, especially now more than ever, while the world is on fire and distraction has become our default state.”
A return to her DIY roots, the album was recorded and produced by Richie Buxton and Ecca Vandal in Buxton’s childhood bedroom. “We cut out everything that didn’t serve us, the timelines, the metrics, the pressure to ‘stay visible’ online. We tuned out of the feed and turned inwards,” says Vandal.
“In Richie’s childhood bedroom, we built a tiny home studio, four walls that became a universe. The internet was painfully slow, so we were truly disconnected from the online game. Deep in bayside Melbourne, far from our inner-city friends, that little room became our whole world for nearly two years. It held all our chaos and all our clarity, a little ‘playpen’ where we could live, play and experiment like teenagers again. We started making things with our hands again, tangible, imperfect, and real. We wanted to celebrate long-form, the idea of an album as a whole body of work, while the world was chasing 15-second snippets and algorithm-friendly noise.
So we left behind the room packed with industry chatter and opinions, and created our own little haven. And honestly, it was magic. The best decision we’ve ever made.”
Along with announcing her new album, Vandal has shared her latest single, ‘SORRY! CRASH!’. Following the previously released tracks ‘MOLLY’, ‘CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE’, ‘BLEED BUT NEVER DIE’ and ‘THEN THERE’S ONE’ and ‘BLEACH’, Vandal’s latest is a frantic punk-inspired brain buster that will have you on edge.
“I thought I’d hit rock bottom when I wrote this, but realised there isn’t really a rock bottom at all - you just keep falling,” she says of the track. “This song is that moment where you stop pretending that you’re okay, ‘SORRY! I’m about to CRASH! the f*ck out!’”
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After several years away from the spotlight, Ecca Vandal’s return is one many have been looking forward to.
The South African-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist is a genre chameleon whose music works just as well in the club as it does chilling at home.
Along with sharing a stack of new singles last year, Ecca supported Limp Bizkit across South America and performed at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. She makes her Coachella debut this weekend, with more festival shows to follow across Europe before returning home to support Deftones on their Australian and New Zealand tour.
‘SORRY! CRASH!’ by Ecca Vandal is out now. Listen here. LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW arrives Friday 22 May via Loma Vista Recordings. Pre-order here. Check out the album artwork and tracklisting below.
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW
AIRPLANE MODE
EYES SHUT
SORRY! CRASH!
VERTICAL WORLDS
BLEED BUT NEVER DIE
CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE
MOLLY
OKAY NOT TO BE OKAY
LEVITATE PART 1&2
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW
THEN THERE’S ONE
BLEACH
DID A LITTLE MORE TO FORGET
DO IT ANYWAY
DANCE IN DEBT
GHOSTS
CAME HERE FOR THE LOOT
